The Reserve Bank of Australia is intent on further suppressing household spending, amid the ongoing global impact of the US-Israeli war on Iran and a worsening cost-of-living crisis.
The Labor government’s far-reaching assault on the National Disability Insurance Scheme has provoked an outpouring of anger from disabled people, their families and advocacy organisations.
Africa’s four richest billionaires own $57.4 billion—more than the combined wealth of half the continent’s 1.5 billion population
Manslaughter charges over Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court inferno expose a vast corrupt system of profiteering, bid‑rigging and brutal housing conditions.
This is the report delivered by Nick Beams to the 2022 International May Day Online Rally held on May 1. Beams is a longstanding leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International and an expert on Marxist economics.
Her carefully cultivated public persona has allowed Elizabeth II to be deployed at times of heightened national crisis as an illusory but politically necessary embodiment of stability and permanence.
The scale of the horror and the depth of the public reaction suggest that something of a “tipping point” has been reached.
In the wealthiest country in the world, store shelves are empty and millions of families are now facing a desperate struggle to find essential nutrition products for their babies and toddlers.
